Most of the Roy Thomas-scripted adaptations of Michael Moorcock’s Elric novels came out as individual comics issues – five or eight or so for each novel – and were eventually collected into book form. But The Dreaming City was instead a single graphic novel from Marvel in 1982 – maybe because this is the original 1962…
I looked at a Michael Moorcock “Eternal Champion” comic — primarily by other hands — a couple of months ago, and noted that Moorcock made several attempts overt the years to end that series. Well, I’m back with another EC book, from 2011. And that era is, as far as I can tell, well after…
Michael Moorcock has “ended” his Eternal Champion cycle many times over the past decades — I think he did it for the first time back in the late ’60s, when it was still almost entirely Elric and just a bit of those other guys. But none of those endings have taken; he’s come back time…
There are two types of comic book characters that are nearly impossible to sustain: the omnipotent hero, and the omnipotent villain. Whereas both feed nicely into the mythic environment, both suffer the same problem. If they can do anything, what can they do next? Many decades ago, Michael Moorcock more-or-less tackled this question in his…
Considering he’s about to lose a leg, author Michael Moorcock certainly is in good spirits. The creator of Elric, Hawkmoon, Count Brass, and Jerry Cornelius, the author of such award-winning books as Behold The Man and Gloriana, singer/songwriter for Hawkwind and the Heavy Metal movie, former editor of the British Tarzan comics, screenwriter of The…
Acclaimed novelist Michael Moorcock posted the following statement on his message board yesterday: “Looks like it’s official. I’ll be doing a new Dr. Who novel (not a tie-in) for appearance, I understand, by next Christmas. Still have to have talks etc. with producers and publishers but we should be signing shortly. Should be fun.” By…
Interzone #211, a special Michael Moorock issue, will be published in a week, so TTA Press has posted its table of contents. Besides a new Moorcock story and novel excerpt, there are stories from Carlos Hernandez, Aliette de Bodard, and Grace Dugan, among other things. Ansible has put out its 240th issue, full of the…
Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melniboné, star of at least a half-dozen novels (with Moorcock it’s kind of hard to count) plus numberous crossover appearances in other Moorcock books, plus numerous comics, plus at least two CD novels, is heading for the big screen at long last. According to the British publication Empire Online, Chris and…
